If you are the dean of a European school or program, we invite you to participate in a free, in-depth study of how well an applicant’s GMAT® score can predict overall grade point average and grades in specific types of b-school courses; just have your admissions staff contact the GMAC® Validity Study Service team at vss@gmac.com. European business and management schools that participate in this project will not only be entitled to access to the results of the full study, but will also receive a customized, school-specific report. At your school’s request, GMAC® will also study the predictive value of factors unique to your MBA program.
The study will also examine how other admissions and demographic factors—such as undergraduate degree, native language, nationality, and gender—affect prediction of b-school academic performance in Europe. GMAC® will use the results of the study to further its continued efforts to better understand and serve the European business school market. The GMAT® exam is the most reliable predictor of how a student will perform academically in business school, and GMAC® has studied GMAT® predictive validity (the power to predict student grades) extensively.
GMAC® will be collecting data for this ongoing study through July; a final report detailing the results is scheduled for completion in early 2006.
For more information about the Validity Study Service, visit the Validity Study Service Web page on gmac.com.
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